Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed more bills that change how sexual assaults are dealt with in Michigan. The new laws are to address problems uncovered as lawmakers delved into the scandal surrounding convicted sexual predator Larry Nassar.
One of the bills makes it a crime to destroy medical records that could be used as evidence. The new law says those records need to be preserved for at least 15 years. Senator Kristen McDonald-Rivet is the bill sponsor.
“Sometimes it takes victims, survivors of sexual violence years to come forward and what will often happen is the evidence is gone, lost, destroyed.” said Rivet.
The new laws also make it a crime to sexually abuse patients under the guise of medical treatment. They also require a second medical professional to be in the room during some types of examinations conducted on minors.
